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Title: Bose-Einstein condensation, quantum many-body systems, and a central limit theorem
Speaker: Kay Kirkpatrick
Speaker Info: UIUC
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Near absolute zero, a gas of quantum particles can condense into an unusual state of matter, called Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC), that behaves like a giant quantum particle. The rigorous connection has recently been made between the physics of the microscopic many-body dynamics and the mathematics of the macroscopic model, the cubic nonlinear Schrodinger equation (NLS). I'll discuss recent progress with Gerard Ben Arous and Benjamin Schlein on a central limit theorem for the quantum many-body systems, a step towards large deviations for Bose-Einstein condensation.